Thursday September 15, 2005 – Section B DO North
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By Around Cape Ann
Gail McCarthy
Authors of prose and poetry will come together tonight in a special event featuring
the founders of the Backshore Writers Collaborative
The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts of Gloucester continues its Artists on Artists series at 7 p.m. at the West End Theater on Main Street. Poets Schuyler Hoffman and Peter Tuttle, and prose writer Peter Anastas will read from and discuss their work, the literary process and the mission of the Back Shore Press.
Admission is free to members and $5 for non-members.
Peter Anastas, a Gloucester native born in 1937, has published many works, including "Glooskap's Children: Encounters with the Penobscot Indians of Maine" (Beacon Press), "Landscape with Boy," a novella in the Boston University Fiction Series, "At the Cut," a memoir of growing up in Gloucester in the 1940s (Dogtown Books), and "Broken Trip," a novel (Glad Day Books). He is the editor of "Maximus to Gloucester: The Letters and Poems of Charles Olson to the Editor of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1962-1969" (Ten Pound Island Books). He has English degrees from Bowdoin College and Tufts University.
Schuyler Hoffman, a poet and playwright, follows a Beat tradition. In addition to his written work, he has published a poetry-music CD. He has taken part in local poetry festivals featuring the works of Charles Olson, Michael McClure and Allen Ginsberg.
Hoffman is a performing poet and has worked with musician Richard Atwood, together seeking to alter the relationship between language and music. His plays have been produced by Hartford's experimental Stillpoint Theatre Workshop, the Playwriting and Performance Workshop on Nantucket in 2001, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conferences in Alaska in 2003 and 2004.
Tuttle, a graduate of Columbia, has written three books of poetry, including the most recent, "Looking for a Sign in the West," published by Back Shore Press in 2003.